First swim of the season!

Kylie gave the pool a try  after her First Communion party this afternoon and loved it!  She said it was ready for the summer! 

Our nephew was visiting so he got to give it a try too.  After a few minutes of aprehension he soon got it in the fun!

My rock star child under water...her favorite thing to do.

And she's back!

Swimming Update!

It's been a long time since I posted a swimming update about Kylie. She recently began to take private lessons, we have been so happy with our decision to go the private lesson route. I really wished we would have done it much sooner. The reason we made the decision to do the private lessons is we seen how Kylie thrived with the one on one attention in the pool and she's in the water for almost the entire 30 minute lesson versus the 10 total minutes she might have gotten in the classes. That depended on the class size.

Here are a couple of videos of her I took on Saturday at her lesson:

Here she is swimming with the float board

Here she is doing the elementary backstroke

Kylie jumping off the dive pad

Swimming

This time I had my camera ready, here is Kylie swimming the full length of the pool - by herself with no bubble. We were so proud of her, I think she is possibly turning the corner with her self confidence. We have always known she is capable of swimming like this but she has not always known it. Hopefully after two weeks of proving to herself that she can do it she will want to swim on her own instead of fearing swimming on her own.

Kylie Swimming

Kylie has come along way on her swimming. On Thursday durning her swimming lessons she swam across the pool and back without her bubble and did great! She was clam all the way over and back, below is on the way back. Of course I didn't have my camera ready when she started, ugh...

Congratulations Kylie!

We are so happy for Kylie, tonight we learned that she will be moving up to the next level in swimming. She is currently in the Pike class at the YMCA and now starting in January she will be in the Pike Plus class.

Pike Plus is for 3-5 year olds that are able to swim the width of the pool independently with a floatation bubble while splashing his/her feet. The goal of this level is to have the child swimming confidently across the pool without a floatation device.

We are so happy for her, her biggest hurdle was being able to do the back float with a floatation board without getting upset. She can do this now.

We love you Kylie!

Swimming

Here she is swimming across the pool by herself with no bubble! We are so proud of her!




The backfloat, she is getting better and better everyday!

I Understand Completely...

We were swimming at the YMCA today and I was helping her put on her bubble so we could go swimming. I was telling her how she doesn't have to worry about going under the water (this something she worries about) because the bubble will help her to stay above water and while she is swimming. Before I could finish she looked at me and said "Mommy I understand completely, I completely understand, just don't worry about it" while looking down and shaking her head. It was like can you stop trying to explaining already and just go swimming already????

It just just too funny, but are 3 year olds really supposed to be talking like this?!?